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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1887-01-21
Monday Jan. ~.

SENATE-The bill appropniating SIS, OOO,-
OOO for pensions was passed. The army ap-
preparation bill, with few unimportant
| amendments was passed. The resolution
providing for a centennial celebration of the
constitution in April, 1880 wsss adopted.
Mr. Mr. sabln reported Minnesota petition for
the passage of the Lowell bankrupt bill.
The nomination Of John F. Norrish Of Hast
ings was sent to the Senate to-day and re-
| garding this matter a Washington special
says: lit is understood that the President
recently consulted Senator Sabin in regard
to the appointment, and he spoke in warm
est terms in favor of Norrish. He did not
Recommend him exactly. but he left an
impression on the mind of the President that
he could not do better than select Norrish.
The President pays considerable attention
| to statements of Senator 6abiu's wishes.
! and it was doubtless owing to the warm
words of commentator spoken by the lat
ter that Norrish was successful in securing
the place"
HOUsE-Mr. Matson, of Indiana, from the
! committee on invalid pensions, called ND
the bill granting the relief to the parents
of honorably discharged soldiers and sail
Ors, who are dependent on their own labor
for support Mr.. Warner, of Ohio, while
rot opposing the bill, criticised it as de-
parture from principle that pensions we're
designed to be compensation for disabili-
ties. This bill was rather pauper bill than
pension bill.
Mr.. Morrill,, of Kansas, favored the bill as
being declaration that no old soldier who
followed the flag should end his days in the
poor house. Mr.. springer favored the bill
as a conservative measure. The bill was
then passed-Yeas, l79, nays, 70. The Mex
lean pension bill granting IS month to all
surviving officers and enlisted men, was
passed yeas 243, nays >, and the bill goes to
the President. Mr.. Strait presented the st.
Paul chamber of Commerce petition for the
passage of the Lowell bankrupt law. Mr..
White presented a bill to remove the
charge Of desertion from the record of Thos
McCabe, soldier in the Minnesota youn-
teerS.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1887-01-21

THE usefulness of asphalt paper ap-
pears to be demonstrated by it's con-
stantly multiplying applications. III
thin sheets it is found admirably adj
apted for wrapping silks or other
fabrics that need protection from mois.
ture: also for lining. cases, packing
boxes for pianos, etc., and rolled up
iuto pipes for conveying water. AS.
phalt tubes are but one-ffth the weight
Of iron, will not rust, and are quite
tough and strong; they are simply
sheets of paper of peculiar quality
dipped in melted asphalt, and ther
relied upon cylinder
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1887-01-21
Crimes.

H. T. Blackstone, who embezzled 10000
from bank in Portland, Maine was cap
tured in Winnipeg by a sheriff, who follow
I'd his wife from home.
JAN 4, in court at St. Louis, Witrock and
Haight, two of the Adams Express robbers
plead guilty and were sentenced to seven
guilt and was sentenced for five years.
T.. J. Culverius was executed in jail at
Richmond, Va, on the 14tn, for the murder
of his cousin Lillian Madison. He pro.
claimed his innoc nee to the last, though
none conversant with the facts believed
him. The crime was committed twenty
two months ago.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1887-01-21
DAKOTA.

Gov. Pierce has pardoned John Shape, an
inmate of the penitentiary at Sioux Falls,
who had served two years of two and a
half years sentence for grand larceny, on
Auerbach, Finch & Van Slyck, of st
Paul. have decided to make Aberdeen their
Dakota headquarters. Full arrangements
will be made at once. C. Gotham 4 Co., of
st. Paul have also made the same arrange
ment. Aberdeen'S Importance as a com
mercial center is becoming to be recognized
in substantial manner
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1887-01-21
Thickness of Human Hair.

Measurements have shown the thick
ness of the human hair to vary from the
two hundred and tiftieth to the six
hundredth part of an inch. The silk
worms thread is one tive-thousandth.
Blonde hair is the finest and red the
coarsest. Taking four heads of equal
weight, patient German psychologist
found the red one to contain about co.
900 hairs, the black l0S, 900, the brown
100000, and the blonde 100000.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1887-01-21
ONE day last week Sidney E. Adams,

ONE day last week Sidney E. Adams,
President of the Y. M. G.. A., and Au-
gustus H. Holmes, were arrested at
Buffalo, charged with violating the
Sunday law, in that they, in operating
their oil refinery, employ men who per-
form servile work on Sunday. The
complaint was made by the proprietor
If theater, who was recently arrested
on charges preferred by Adams and
Holmes for giving Sunday perform
ances.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1887-01-21

The Great Eastern steamship is
finally to be put up and sold at auc-
ton. She now lies in Kingstown Har-
Dor, Dublin, where she went last fall.
1t is supposed that she will be con-
verted into storeship or floating
hospital. In these days of huge ships it
may be interesting to know that none
of them approach in size the Great
Eastern, whose gross tonnage amounts
to 49,, 915 tons.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1887-01-21
Thursday Jan. IS.

SENATE The theme of the day was the
interstate Commerce bill, Senator Evarts
making a long speech in opposition. Sena-
tor Frye gave notice of motion to recon-
NIT, which it was thought would fail by
about eight votes. An informal coll is as
sumed to show that the Republicans are
about evenly divided upon the bill and
eleven democrats will vote against it, and
that the motion to concur in the conference
report will carry by about Is votes.
HoUsE-Mr. Tucker, Va, from tho judic-
larry committee had charge of the business
of the session, and several bills matured by
that committee were passed, chiefly of in
terest to lawyers and jurists. The mini
mum jurisdiction of the circuit courts was
increased from $500 to $4,000. The Ways
and Means committee have agreed to abol-
ish sixty customs districts throughout the
country, dispensing with 100 employees a enc
reducing the cost Of the service $1OO,0OO
In the Northwest the districts abolished are,
La Crosse, Wis, Dubuque and Burlington,
Ia, Galena, ILL.,, Michigan City, Michigan.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1887-01-21

AN Irish landlord named Rea, who
lately had an annual income of $1,000
from rentals, has applied for admis-
ssion to the workhouse at KILLARNEY.
being unable to get money from either
trustees or tentNts.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1887-01-21

The Seth Thomas Clock company of
Thomaston have prepared drawings for
the great clock which is to be placed in
the tower of the new city hall at Phila-
delphia, and which if completed in &C.
eordance with their plans, will be the
largest in the world. The bells upon
which it will strike the hours and quar-
tiers will weigh $4,000 pounds and the
glass dials, as contemplated, measure
% feet in diameter
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1887-01-21

his family. The two Minnesota Senators
voted in the affirmative.
HoUsE-Private bills from the Senate cal
endar we're considered and number passed.
The conference report upon the electoral
court bill was agreed to. An evening ses-
sion was held and AHpension bills passed.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1887-01-21

, EVIDENCE taken by the grand jury
at Ogden, Utah, showed that in three
room house i'll that city live Willard
Bingham, two wives, twenty unmar-
ried Children, five married sons, with
their wives aud fifteen children, and
two hired men in the attic.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1887-01-21

TRAVELLERS from Hawarden declare
that Gaadstone's contenance hss grown
more smiling than ever of 2ate, and
that he evidently believes aAaat his
period Of seclusion is drawing to a close.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1887-01-21

RESPECTING the Campbell case and
the criticisms of Gen, Buffers refusal
to appear as correspondent, it is now
said that Butler offered an explanation
which though not made public, has
proved satisfactory to the Prince Wales
and saved Butler from the danger of
social ostracism.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1887-01-21

THE governor general of C:uaada is
said to be searching in Montreal for a
suitable building to remodel into vice
regal court, to be occupied whenever
parliament is not in session at OTTAWA.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1887-01-21

ANDREW CARNEGIE is building on the
summit ofthe Allcghenies, near Cresson
Springs, Pa, house or castle which
will cost 100000. The entire walls
will be built up together of the I'M
dressed surface stone which is to be
found on the place, and they are not to
show in any place single mark OF the
chisel or hammer.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1887-01-21
What 1t Is Like

The Bulgarian throne is like the
chair which little Silverhair found in
the BEARS house-so hard that nobody
but a bear can sit on it. So thinks
the Russian acknowledgement
Her0Id.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1887-01-21

BEING afflicted with a bowel COM
plant, Mrs. Henry VIM, of Oak Grove,
Illinois, went forty~seven days without
food or drink, dying last week. From
a weight of three hundred pounds she
declined to Z mere skeleton.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1887-01-21
NOTES OF THE TIMES.

H4IE Baroness RothschiM in Paris
has announced a coming series of Sun
day afternoon dances for young girls.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1887-01-21
Friday Jan. Ia.

SENArB-The interstate Commerce bill
was brought to vote after number OF
short speeches by Senators upon both sides
of the subject The general fee ing OF those
opposed to the bill was to recommit, and
upon motion to that end SO voted against
to Is for that action, half Of those voting to
recommit voting for the bill upon the final
question. The vote taken upon the passage
Of the bill was 4s yeas to Is nays. % Dem,
twenty Republicans voted for the bill and
twelve against it. All the negative votes
came from the east and south. Ohio divided,
M. Sherman; voting for the bill and Mr.,
Payne against it. There were five pairs and
one Senator absent owing to the illness in
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1887-01-21

HEATHER gentlemen all over the
world will hear with glee of the bitter
complaints uttered by philanthropists
in London. The Philanthropists COM
plain that only 100000 is spent on
the London hospitals, while fl, 100000
is voted to send vests to Borrioboola
Cha.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1887-01-21
Saturday, Jan. Is.
SENATE-NOt in session.

SENATE-Not in session.
HoUsE-The session was devoted to mis-
cellaneous business quite an amount being
disposed of, including matters pertaining to
the Pacific railroads and the river and har-
Dor bill. Mr.. Crisp repontsd the interstate
commerce conference bill passed by the
Senate.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1887-01-21

BEN AHMAR, was recently rewarded
with the cross of the Legion of Honor
for bravery as a lion-killer. In Algeria
in twenty-six years, he killed over 200
lions. One lion is estimated to destroy
10000 francs worth of capital annually
and to keep it up for ten gears at least,
so the lion-killer saved Algeria about
2O,OOO,OOO francs.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1887-01-21

Senator Sabin's Railroad BILL
Senator Sabin, of Minnesota, has prepared
the following amendment which he will at
tach to all bills that are introduced in the
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-11-16

useful household arts before you at
tempt to make home. Cultivate your
minds with the best books, that you
may be able to teach your children
much that school training alone will
never give you. Choose your amuse-
ments wisely, for youth must have
pleasure, but need not waste itself in
harmful frivolity. Above all, sele ct
your friends with care. Avoid girls
who live only for fashion, Irritation and
enjoyment, and use the privilege all
women may claim to decline the ac-
quaintance of young men whose lives
will not bear inspection by the inno-
cent eyes of women. Let no delusiOn
of wealth, rank, comeliness or love
tempt you to trust your happiness to
such an one. Watch and wait till the
true lover comes, even if it be all your
life, for single blessedness is far better
than double misery and wrong. Spin
sters are a very useful, happy, indie
pendent race, never more so than when
all professions are open to them and
honor, fame and fortune are bravely
won by many gifted members of the
ssterhood. Set your standard high
and live up to it, sure that the reward
will come here or hereafter and in the
form best suited to your real needs
Louisa AlcOH
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-11-16

use brings. We remember that one of
our valued correspondents used to take
us severely to task for so strongly
recommending the storage of ice and
its use in the family who has since
moved to another locality where ice
can be readily procured, and we notice
that good ice-house furnishes supply
for daily use in the family. All that is
necessary to keep ice well is to have a
floor and four walls to hold plenty of saw
dust around it and a roof to cover ii.
Plenty of ventilation should be allowed
and any ice-house lacking that will not
keep ice well. So important in the dairy
is ice considered by some of the dairymen
in Pomfret that they buy it and haul it
from four to six miles. II is great
convenience and satisfaction in drinks
in the fields during summer, and we
shall continue to commend it to our
readers
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-11-16
BOTTLES.

Our esteemed exchange, the MaSSa-
chusetts Ploughma't, was away off last
week on BOTTLES. Witness the fol-
lowing items, clipped from different
columns of that paper. The first reads
" AT Newcastle, England, hides ex-
hibited showed the damage done by
the bot-fy to be very great One hide
had four hundred perforations, and it
was stated that the animals death was
by blood-poisoning. This will have
the effect to decide means to Danish
the bot-hy." The other is as follows:
Rub tar on sleeps noses to prevent
their annoyance by the bot-hy." The
Ploughman should have had something
on BOTTLES as affecting hogs, as they
don't trouble them any more than they
do cattle and sheep. We never knew
before, Brother Noyes, that cattle had
the bots.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-11-16
Hints to HOusekeepers.

SALT and vinegar, applied hot, are
good for cleaning brass, which should
afterward be polished with fine ashes.
To test nutmegs prick them with a
pin, and if they are good the oil will
instantly spread around the puncture.
To pack a trunk fold each article
fiat without wrinkles. More can be
pressed into a trunk flat than in
bundles.
To make glossy starch melt together
one ounce of white wax and two ounces
of spermaceti. Make starch, and to
good-sized painful add lump of the
mixture about the size of pea.
A REFRESHING and nourishing drink
for an invalid may be made by stirring
the yellow of an egg into glass of
lemonade. If this is too rich use more
lemonade and drink part at a time.
A DAMP broom is often an excellent
thing with which to sweep a carpet
after the first dirt has been removed,
but wet broom is very bad one. If
dirt and water make mud a wet broom
will be the means to spread that COM
pound wherever it travels.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-11-16
BOraX versus Kerosene.

Several weeks ago | saw in this paper
kerosene recommended for washing. |
have tried it, but do not like it as well
as borax. Perhaps some one would
like to try my way of washing. 1 wash
out the sheets, pillow-cases and fine
clothes in hot suds, letting them stand
awhile to soak if convenient. Put into
the boiler enough water in which to
boil the clothes and add large table,
spoonful of borax. Place the clothes
already washed in the boiler and let
them scald until you have more clothes
washed and ready to boil. Then take
out the first lot, rinse them in clear
water and hang them on the line. After
the rest of the clothes are washed and
boiled as usual l suds or rinse them out,
and put them back in the boiler with
clear water to scald, after which rinse
and hang them up. place the second
boiling of clothes in the same water
which the first ones were boiled in Cor
scalded, for it is not necessary for them
to boiD, adding more water if needed.
/ would like to have some of the kero-
sene-users try borax instead and report
results. A pound of boraX will cost
fifteen or twenty cents and will answer
for quite a number of washings. 1t
makes the clothes look beautifully white.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-11-16
Crooked Creameries.

The farm butter-makers are not sin
ners above all others, nor is adultera-
ton of butter always done with lard,
tallow or cheap grease. Water, caseine
and salt play important parts and the
milkman who puts in gallon of water
to a small can Of milk is no worse than
the creamery or factory man who sends
butter to market with sixteen to thirty
per cent of water in it in the form of
brine. The report of chemist of ma
tional reputation is before me, and his
analyses of a large number of samples
of butter found in the market showed
from fourteen to thirty-two per cent of
water in them, when twelve to four
teen is ample to secure the plastic
quality necessary for bread-spreading
and salt-dissolving. 1t is rather pay
ing to leave eight or ten pounds of
extra unneeded moisture in a hundred
pounds of butter, but what does the
consumer get as an equivalent? A but
ter that is exceedingly sensitive to
change of temperature, and as a result
quickly gets loft flavor" The Sc
quence is we now hear of " present-use
BUTTER" which in its effect upon
hitti hSl BliSSo 10 NuilS 40 blooollpuo 90
the much-abused dairy butter. That
this leaving an excess of water in
butter has the sanction-at least i'm
plied-of noted makers was witnessed
at the New York dairy fair, where the
chemist found in one sample twenty
one per cent of water. Caseine, or
cheese, is often left in butter in too
large quantity. There should be only
a trace of it left, but Professor Weber
of Ohio found as high as four per cent
in amples-enough to manufacture
rancidity for whole dairy neighbor-
hood. Where this amount of caseine
is left in the butter the water quickly
acts upon it, for water is solvent of
caseine, and we soon get as the result
a flavor not classed as aroma by good
judges. Washing the butter thoroughly
in weak brine is the best method OF
removing caseine, but in farm diaries
it is little practiced because of belief
that washing Injuries butter. Water
applied as it should be cannot injure
butter-pats, but does remove the caseine
and the sugar, which are, next to filth
the great enemies of good butter.-J
g., Ohio, in Tribune.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-11-16
Fashion Notes.

THE present may truly be designated
braid season.
THE Bismarck brown of past seasons
is revived under the name of old ma
hogany.
FRENCH plaid woolens are materials
oftenest chosen for little girls winter
school dresses.
SERGES of various weaves are popu-
lar dress material, and they are durable
as well as beautiful.
NARROW velvet ribbon applied in
rows or in patterns like braid is used
in profusion upon children's dresses.
MANY of the costumes being pre-
pared for winter are entirely of gray,
and gray bonnets or hats will be worn
en- suite.
THE newest handkerchiefs are of
sheer linen lawn, with border of
daisies or other small blossoms en-
broidered in natural colors.
YOUNG ladies wear toques of the
same material with their cloth gowns.
These fit the head like skull-cap, are
in melon shape at the top and have
little trimming.
IHE variety OF outside garments this
season is greater than ever before.
There is no stated length, every style,
from the long French pelsse to the
jaunty hunting jacket, being in vogue.
A NOVELTY in neck-dressing is a
band of MORE ribbon, white or colored,
worn inside the dress collar, the picot
or fancy edge showing above, small
bow being tied in front. A similar ar
rangement is seen upon the sleeves.
To produce the polonaise effect so
popular at the present time, back
draperies are often attached to the back
of the basque, or the back drapery is
pulled between the back pieces of the
basque, which are left open for the
purpose.
THREE breadths of material are used
for the entire backs of dresses, the skirt
drapery and lower skirt being thus COM
bined. These breadths are half-yard
longer than the foundation skirt, and
are set in many plaits, meeting in the
middle at the top, turning over in two
pointed ends on the tournure.
PLAIN and figured velvets, seal-skin
plush, plush, tweed and chevoit are all
utilized for the long mantles and redin-
gotes which are likely to be very popu-
lar the coming winter. For the richer
fabrics borders of beaver, black fox or
blue fox fur are used as trimmings,
also epaulets, girdles, V pieces and col
larettes of jet.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-11-16
Mutton Sheep.

A frequent question among farmers is,
"What kind of sheep can keep to the best
advantage?" My advice is il the farmer
is keeping a fine-wool, blooded sheep not
to change; but if he is keeping the common
scrub sheep, or perhaps none at all, then
my advice would be to start with some
large, coarse-wool, mutton sheep, the wool
suitable for combng. The lambs of such
sheep are quite an item ofprotit. My theory
may be illustrated by referring to what Mr..
ID. S. Belden of Benson, VT, is doing. He
commenced keeping the pshireDowns,
a large breed of sheep, about six years ago.
These sheep are unusually prolific in lambs.
Two years ago his stock through the year
consisted of seventy-three to seventy-five
old sheep, which produced 103 lambs, yield
ing a net income from each old sheep of
$500 The past year seventy-two sheep
have produced 10l lambs. The income of
the flock has not been made out for the
current year. One pair of twin lambs, full
blood Shropshire-Downs, at eighteen weeks
old weighed 152 pounds. They had received
no extra feed to that date. Since coarse
wool and good lambs are in demand at the
present tl1ne, anu likely 10 reIndlu 50, unlS
seems most desirable kind of stock for
farmers to invest in. A start may be made
with few selected specimens and soon,
under proper management, the farmer will
have remunerative tlock.-E. d. Richards,
in american CultiCdtor.
The Shropshires are large and
coarse-wooled sheep and make fair
mutton, but our advice is to cross upon
flocks such as are mentioned good
South-Down buck. The South-Downs
are the perfection of the mutton sheep,
both in quality and for forming flesh
just when it is most valuable. A
neighbor of ours has had excellent sue
cess in this course, raising early lambs
and selling them at high figures. But
in this industry, as in others, the man
who takes the best care, feeds judi
ciously and markets early will secure
the best returns.